It also leads a coalition government in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Its large and cosmopolitan population made it the commercial and financial heart of the northwestern provinces as well.

Kalhor also travelled in the northwestern provinces of Iran.

Between 11.2 and 20 million Azerbaijanis live in Iran, mainly in the northwestern provinces.

He is most popular in the northwestern province of Équateur, whence his father hailed.

The movement grew quickly and within a few months spread throughout the Hindu population of the northwestern provinces of India.

It was a good name for them, from the northwestern provinces, where Queen and Florestan were least popular.

That has been especially rewarding in the northwestern province of Chalatenango.

"In the northwestern provinces, there are whole villages that have had to get up and leave," he said in a telephone interview.

Close to a million Kurds reportedly have been admitted to Iran's three northwestern provinces in the last two weeks.